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Justice Mullins ordered Fardon be released from custody at the Wolston Correctional Centre by 4pm today and taken to the Wacol precinct, where he would be fitted with a GPS tracker and inducted.

However, Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie will apply for an immediate stay of the order to release Fardon and has instructed Crown Law to appeal against the decision by the Supreme Court to release him.

In deciding to free Fardon, Justice Mullins ordered he be subject to 34 conditions under the supervised release order, including that he notify them of any intimate relationship, not visit any place that housed children or people with intellectual disabilities and that he continue ongoing counselling.

Justice Mullins said she was satisfied the community could be adequately protected from the risk of sexual reoffending if Fardon was managed by the supervised order.

She said: "It is common ground that he is not a pedophile and does not have a sexual paraphilia but that his sexual offending occurred in the context of his psychopathic personality disorder and was aggravated by alcohol and substance abuse."

Fardon was the first person detained indefinitely past his release date under Queensland's Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act in 2003 and has spent all but five years of his adult life in jail for sexual offences against women and children.

He was released under a strict supervision order in 2006 but was detained two years later after being charged and then convicted of rape.

Fardon was jailed for 10 years in 2010 for the rape but the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction. The following year the Court of Appeal upheld an urgent application by then Attorney-General Paul Lucas to keep him behind bars.

Ms Tomlinson said she had now set up a registered non-profit organisation and charity called Serendipity Falls for victims like her.

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